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PALEONTOLOGY. 



Fiff. 3. 



Axinwa Wyomingends. 

 Fig. 2. Exterior or left valve, with surface somewhat 



eroded. 

 Fig. 3. luterior, and hinge of same. 



haps a few other smaller ones toward the central region ; cardinal margin 

 short; hinge-area small, with apparently only a few coarse cartilage-fur- 

 rows ; pallial margin strongly cre- 

 nate within; surface ornamented 

 by fine concentric striae, and a 

 few stronger marks of growth, 

 crossed by about thirty-five to 

 forty very obscure radiating, flat- 

 tened, or much depressed costse, 

 only separated by scarcely per- 

 ceptible narrow or linear fur- 

 rows. 



Height, 1.30 inches; breadth, 1.33 inches; convexity, 1.04 inches. 

 This species is perhaps as nearly allied to ^. suhimhricata, M. & H., 

 as to any other Cretaceous form. It is a much thicker and more gibbous 

 shell, however, with proportionally less transverse valves, and much less 

 distinctly defined costse. It also differs in having a broader hinge-plate 

 and straighter hinge-denticles. If Poll's name Axinma should not be 

 retained for this genus, the name of this species here described will become 

 Pectunculus Wyomingensis. 



Locality and position. — East side of Cooper Creek, near Old Stage Sta- 

 tion; Laramie Plains, Wyoming Territory ; Cretaceous. 



COEBULlDiE. 



Genus CORBULA, Brugui^re. 



CORBULA (undt. sp.). 



Plate 14, fig. 2. 



Shell transversely ovate-pyriform, being gibbous in the anterior and 

 umbonal regions, and distinctly contracted, compressed, and subrostrate 

 behind; ventral margin semiovate, with the most prominent part a little in 

 advance of the middle; anterior margin truncated obliquely forward from 

 the beaks above, and somewhat abruptly rounded from near the middle 

 into the base; beak (of left valve) prominent, rather gibbous, incurved, and 



